Also money only works in human society, once I hiked one of the best walks in the country - it's mostly remote in the bushes/forest. In the course of 6 days, I spent $3.5 - I only encountered one small shop, from which I bought a cold lemonade.

@JourneymanGeek Back home, I met one of my old teachers from high school, who is also dyslexic. He tends to repeat many things and use too many words when speaking. Out of curiosity, is this something you find yourself doing?

I think we better delete this answer, see in its revisions, it was used to game the system. (give rep to bot account by approving crappy edits, just for the sake of rep). What you think? @rene @Bart @JourneymanGeek

During the primary phase of SE elections the candidate pool is narrowed to 10 nominations based on a free-form up/down voting system much like answers. However the vote math system has some funky stuff that we'd probably be better off without like showing the vote tallies as:
floor ( upvotes - d...

Excluding possible removed mods (who are removed from the election pages), 37 mods have ever been appointed on SO. Of those, 8 are no longer mods, and 4 are users who became employees and now hold diamonds as a result of employment, not by community power. One additional user used to fall into the latter boat, but is no longer an employee, so their diamond is once again community-powered.

So we have more than a thousand mod flags a day, and only 25 mods to handle them.

animuson is in the unique position of initially holding mod powers on MSE as an SO mod back when it was called MSO, then having them revoked after the meta split, and then subsequently reinstated after becoming hired at SE.

One major component of the review activity tab on your profile that you must understand is that deleted posts are never shown there. No matter what queue the review happened in, if the parent post ends up being deleted, the review task will also disappear from your list shortly after. In that sen...

Academia's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!
For details on how the voting...

@Shog9 - So, close vote stuff came up again with regards to the SO election, and I was curious what you thought about expanding some of the gold tag badge functionality. What if: We expand the gold tag badge privilege to one click closure for users who have a gold tag badge in close review as well as a relevant tag?.